A beautiful letter asking Rabbi Yisrael Ya’akov to send him his Seforim Knesset Yisrael, Techiyat Yisrael. Despite the fact that he can’t pay their price "because the situation of the rabbis is very sad and bitter in their mouths and in their homes, there is no bread and no clothes… hashem will have mercy soon" but instead he sends him his Sefer Ohel Shlomo in return.
Plawno, 1927.
The Gaon & tzaddik Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai HaCohen Rabinowitz, author of "Shiach Yitzchak", was born in 1887 to his father, the Rebbe Rabbi Zvi Meir HaCohen, zt’l, and the grandson of the Rebbe Shlomo HaCohen, author of Tiferes Shlomo of Radomsk Zt”l.
At the age of 15 he received Semicha from Rabbi Meir Yechiel of Astravsa zt’l. He served as Rabbi in Plawno, where he was known as a man uplifted from the people. He was invited many times to act as an arbitrator in complicated disputes. On the 19th of Elul 1939, just two days after the outbreak of World War II he was murdered in Plawno by the Nazis Hy”d.
He also authored Aterat Shlomo, Ohel Shlomo and more
The Gaon Rabbi Israel Jacob ben Abraham ha-Kohen Yoffe (1874–1934) belonged to the distinguished Yoffe family of rabbis and scholars in Russia, England, and Israel. And was the son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph ben Moses Yoffey (Joffe, or Jaffe; 1845–1897) who immigrated to England in 1893 and was appointed rabbi of the Central Synagogue in Manchester. Rabbi Israel Jacob was born in Ukmerge (Wilkomir) and succeeded his father-in-law as rabbi of the Central Synagogue in Manchester at the age of 23. He founded the Manchester yeshivah and revitalized the talmud torah. Together with Rabbi H. Hurwitz of Leeds he organized in 1911 the first conference in England of Eastern European rabbis, with the aim of uniting them. He died in Alexandria, Egypt, on the way to Eretz Israel & was buried on the mount of olives in Jerusalem.
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